Новости за 17.04.2017

U.S. stocks bounced back from their recent losses Monday after the Chinese government said that country’s economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the first quarter. Banks jumped as interest rates recovered. On Monday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index advanced 20.06 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,349.01. The Dow Jones industrial average surged […]

Fund the State Need Grant, write three of Washington’s higher-education leaders.

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A former Atlantic City councilman once charged in a sex blackmail case that involved a secretly recorded video, a Baptist minister and a hooker has been sentenced to prison over another recording made by a co-owner of a Boardwalk rolling chair company. John Schultz was sentenced Monday to six months in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt in millions of dollars. The government’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit April 14 $19,808,747 Statutory debt limit $19,808,772 Total public debt outstanding April 14 $19,846,272 Operating balance April 14 $141,247 Interest fiscal year 2017 thru March $145,389 […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Blue Jackets scored more goals in the first six minutes of Sunday’s game than in their first two playoff games combined. That still wasn’t enough to slow down the Pittsburgh Penguins, who dealt the Blue Jackets a third straight playoff loss and put them on the brink of elimination. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Santa Clara County judge has dismissed a rape charge against former San Francisco 49er Ray McDonald after prosecutors said the woman who made the allegation refused to testify. Judge David A. Cena dismissed the charge — one count of rape of an intoxicated person — on Monday. Santa Clara […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is on the verge of surpassing 100 million subscribers, a testament to how much the video streaming service has changed the entertainment landscape since its debut a decade ago. The milestone will be reached this weekend if Netflix’s projections are correct. Netflix made the prediction Monday with the release of […]

The woman called police and claimed she was responsible for the shooting, Seattle police say. The man has been hospitalized.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A Southwest Airlines pilot has been arrested on a weapons charge in New York after airport security officers found a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple says 55-year-old Erik Gibson was slated to pilot a flight to Tampa, Florida, on Monday morning when Transportation Security Administration […]

The three-story brick structure was a landmark in downtown Sedro-Woolley dating from the 1920s. It most recently housed a video-rental store.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A judge sentenced a former Arizona fire captain to 66 years in prison on Monday for killing his ex-wife, her mother and another person in a case that remained unsolved for over a decade. David Watson, who worked for the Tucson Fire Department, cried as he told a Pima County judge […]

An international journalists' rights organization is calling on Russian authorities to investigate threats made against a newspaper that reported gays were being tortured and killed in Chechnya.

WILLISTON, Fla. (AP) — A vintage private plane that crashed in north Florida killing all four people aboard went unnoticed for nearly a day. The Gainesville Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2oPCqKm ) that the 1948 Cessna 170 crashed Saturday afternoon at the Williston Municipal Airport, but wasn’t noticed until Sunday. None of the victims have been identified. […]

President Trump’s zeal to eliminate “unnecessary” regulations is having an effect on regulations intended to protect the public from adverse chemicals, writes columnist Timothy Egan.

HOUSTON (AP) — In his first trip to the playoffs since 2013, Mike D’Antoni knows the rub on him is that he’s never won a championship. The 65-year-old first-year coach of the Houston Rockets doesn’t spend much time worrying about that criticism. “That’s cool,” he said. “I know a lot of golfers that didn’t win […]

In this vision of the future, an apocalypse has decimated the U.S. population. That causes a shake-up in the political system, placing every adult in Congress. The Horse in Motion production runs through April 29.

The Seahawks will get a visit from former VCU basketball player Mo Alie-Cox on Tuesday, according to a report from ESPN.

DETROIT — A Detroit-area doctor charged with performing genital mutilation on two 7-year-old girls is denying the allegations, saying it was a religious practice for families in a Muslim sect. A lawyer for Dr. Jumana Nagarwala told a judge Monday that the doctor agrees that genital mutilation is inappropriate. Attorney Shannon Smith says Nagarwala removed […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Can the threat of war crimes charges or promise of safe haven finally persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power? Those long-shot proposals are among several at the center of the Trump administration’s strategy to resolve Syria’s six-year civil war. President Donald Trump’s plans for Syria are still evolving. But they […]

NEW YORK — Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht has been ordered to pay $2.6 billion in fines to settle charges it bribed officials in a dozen countries. The payout ordered by Judge Raymond Dearie in New York City came after a plea agreement was reached in December. In a Brooklyn federal court proceeding Monday lasting only […]

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m. Technology and consumer-focused stocks are leading indexes slightly higher in early trading as investors return from a long holiday weekend. Facebook and Microsoft each rose 0.6 percent in the first few minutes of trading Monday, while Amazon.com gained 1 percent. Most Read StoriesSister […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from detained immigrant mothers and their children who claim they will be persecuted if they are returned to their Latin American homelands. The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that said the families did not have a right to contest their […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Nevada is deliberating the fate of six men accused of wielding assault-style rifles during cattleman Cliven Bundy’s dispute with federal agents three years ago. The panel of eight women and four men returns to work Monday, after getting the case Thursday in U.S. District Court in Las […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A state-backed newspaper in the United Arab Emirates that was bought by an Emirati who oversees the English football club Manchester City is undergoing layoffs. Those with knowledge of the layoffs told The Associated Press that staffers at The National were informed Sunday they had been let go. They […]

Seattle’s efforts to develop a new 24-hour facility for housing the homeless have displaced longtime overnight-shelter provider Operation Nightwatch.